Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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DANCE COMMITTEE I-lY'071fRflll I-lorween Romune Morley Lewrs 5t'll71lfRflll Phlnnev Mr Hulburd Alles D Amory DANCE COMMITTEE The tradrtronal school dances were held th1s year on February 12 and May 20 The vanous problems of these two events were capably handled by Dance Commltreemen Charrmrn ohn Morley Ted Romfune George Lems ohn Alles olm Mr Hulburd Kent Bartlett s orchestra played at both dances and wrth the delrghtful accordron serenade durrng dnnner and the subsequent dance musmc lf was a tremendous success The dancers are especlally grateful for the accommod 1t1ons prowlded by the frculty wves for therr partners N H21 l l 4 . il , ', I, . N A' lf 1 I , . , , . '. Amory, and Moms Phinney, supervised by the school's well-known socralite from Pnnceton, . I , ' - , , 1 ' 2 ' ' . ' lx I A 2 ,

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these teams more letters were glven than usual The football and hockey team members earned the prlvxlege of srlver footballs and hockey pucks mth the1r letters A great deal of credlt should be glven to Mr Dawson for the plannmg that made the M A A possible THE ANVIL Thls year s Amzl board IS Composed of Bxll Hamilton as Edntor ln Chlef and Tom Btsbee erry Dole Gul Gllmour Blll Percy ay Ward Deke de Gunz burg jimmy Dunn and Charley Morrxs as e lltors Dave Amory Duck Shnver Serge: Kolachov Pete Mllton and Chuck Rusch make up the Busmess Board It has been the drnvmg arm of this Am I! Board ever smce rt first mer to hnd somethlng novel to Insert between the covers ofrts magazine It even thought of changmg the cover deslgn itself but declded agarnst If The Board therefore determxned to cur down on sports more or less and to put rn some specral artlcles and a calendar of comlng events The special artrcles consrsted from anythmg from a hrsrory of the flagpole whrch used to stand m the mlddle of the campus to how the athletrc frelds were created out of stone fnlled pasture land However when our Board scanned some other school publlcatlons nt looked as rf their edrtonal boards had had the same ldea at the same trme Even so the Arzzzl has come through this year wth a very mterestlng serles of rssues ANVIL BOARD Front Rou Hopkrns, Hutter, Travis, Taylor, Hamnlton, Pratt, Lord, Meier Serond Rau Brsbee, De Gunz burg, Moms, Rusch, Shriver, D Amory, Mr Brxggs Third Rou Dole, Ward, Dunn, Grlmour, Kolachov, Percy Hll 1 V 4 ,J , , .J , - s - - v 1 y 1 v V ' v , . . I , a - a

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DEBATING The Debating artrcle rn last ye zr s Yearbook concluded wath the wrrter s oplnlon that the Class of 50 members left over from the prevrous year s team provrded the makmgs for a good team thus year Little drd he know the accuracy of hrs prophecy I addrtron to two exhrlaratrng Intramural debates one on a proposed U N Army and the other on euthanasla and a good number ofrnterestlng Monday mornmg speeches the school s publxc speakrng year was marked by a peerless record set by one of the finest debatrng teams that has ever clutched a lecturn ln behalf of Mrcldlesex School They heatedly denounced or approved the Presrdent the State Department or any other vrctrm of a debate toprc The season started offw1th a debate wrth St Mark s rn October M1ddlesex took the negative slde of the subject Resolved that the Bolllngen Award to Ezra Pound for Poetry vrolates the sprrnt of Amerrcan democracy Ezra Pound was at the trme under rndrctment for treason and hrs poctry was ofa Frscrst naturej The debate was held at St Mark s wrth Travrs Thomas as rebuttallst Although Lauden of St Mark s was judged the best speaker of the DEBATING TEAM From Rau Thomas Travls McChord Walker Sefon1lRou Rosenthall Gooding Mr Bnggs evenmg the decrsron was accorded to Mrddlesex by a unanimous vote Thomas and Walker rn their first debate gave excellent accounts of themselves In December Mr Brnggs took Walker and Thomas mto the Mrlton Debate Clrmc represented by about twenty schools ln all where both competed rn Impromptu speech competl trons one mrnutc to thnnk on a grven subject and two m1nutes to talk Thomas won hrs competmon grvmg Mrddlesex a two year successnon of wrnners Krngman h lvmg been a wrnner the year before In anuary Mrclcllesev took the negatrve on the subject Resolved that the State Department s foreign polrcy wrth regard to Chlna ns unwlse ' rn a debate held at Milton agarnst Milton Academy TfdVlS, Thomas, and Goodmg delrvered the constructive speeches, and McChord the rebuttal fthe drscussron period berng again deleted ln favor ofa recessj The judges l-UI' 1 - - v K1 I I V 1 1 7 1 ' l , 1 1 -' y ff - f - . ' . , , ' , . . I . I g y 1 2 ' 1 I 1 v . I P' I ' Y McChord, and Walker as introductory speakers, and, after a recess instead ofa discussion period, 7 ' 7 , ' .